The Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem, is subjected to a number of global and local stressors, including tropical cyclones. Although tropical …
Climate variability in the Indian Ocean region affects the livelihoods of billions of people. Paleoclimate reconstructions can provide critical insights into the fundamental oceanic-atmospheric processes …
Oceans cover 70% of the Earth's surface and each liter of seawater contains billions of microbes. These microbes account for most of the biomass in …
Understanding the characteristics and drivers of climate variations is imperative to advancing our knowledge about the evolution and changes of the Earth system. The Holocene …
Heat has been, and will continue to be, a major environmental hazard, public health concern, and local and national economic and security challenge. Extreme high …
Increasing sensitivity to the moral significance of coordinated and uncoordinated human activity has led many philosophers to claim that individuals can be blameworthy for harms …
Knowing how the Earth system will respond to the human release of greenhouse gases (GHG) requires knowing something about how climate has responded to similar …
Multiple human impacts are a widespread phenomenon in coastal ecosystems due to high population densities and diverse activities in the coastal zone. I researched human …
Climate change will dramatically alter the structure and function of ecosystems worldwide. Coastal ecosystems like salt marshes are particularly at risk because they must accrete …
Tropical mountains house the greatest biodiversity on the planet, which may be at especially high risk from climate change. However, confident estimates of extinction risk …
Climate change and the difficulty of addressing displacement are not future problems: they are challenges the international community faces and has been facing for some …